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Could "Brain-dead" Patients Actually Be Aware ?
- 16 Nov 2011
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- 15November11 Diagnoses Medicine Technique Technology
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"Deciding whether a gravely injured person is actually in a vegetative state or just unable to respond has long been a challenge. But scientists have found it may be possible to make a more confident diagnosis with a new method that has already found signs of conscious awareness in three patients thought to be brain-dead. Even more surprisingly, the scientists have done so with a brain scanner that is more common and low-tech than the machines that had previously been used to try to detect consciousness."

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Researchers use maggots to heal diabetic wounds
- 1 Oct 2011
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- 30September11 Diabetes Disease Infection Medicine Remedies Treatment
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"Maggots feed on only dead tissue and leave the living tissue only. They produce a chemical which liquefies the dead tissue so they can suck it up. The maggots secrete chemicals that then stimulate the growth of granulation tissue necessary for the wounds to heal."

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The Five Biggest Medical Discoveries In History
- 18 Sep 2011
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- 17September11 Discoveries Infographic Medicine
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"Medical science has come a long way in the 20th and 21st centuries and a few of the most important innovations have paved the way for a future of medical discoveries. Smallpox alone killed more than 500,000,000 people. In the 18th century, nearly half a million people succumbed to the disease every year. The smallpox vaccine is just one of many medical discoveries that helped save millions of lives. Here are a few of history’s top discoveries."

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Russian Experiments : Revival of Organisms, and The Two-Headed Dog
- 1 Sep 2011
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- 31August11 Dogs Experiments Film Shorts Historical Medicine Organisms Revival Russia Veterinary Vivisection animals
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“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.”
- 31 Jul 2011
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- 30July11 Food Healing Health Medicine
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""Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food" - Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.

With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide 'sickness industry' and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.

In what promises to be the most contentious idea put forward, the filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to help with chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.

The focus of the film is in helping us rethink the belief systems fed to us by our modern medical and health care establishments. The interviewees point out that not every problem requires costly, major medical attention and reveal many alternative therapies that can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than conventional medical treatments."

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Natural pain relief with no opioids, no side effects?
- 25 May 2011
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- 24May11 Flora Medicine Natural
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"It’s called conolidine, and it’s been used for many years in traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Thai medicines.

Originally isolated from the bark of a tropical, ornamental flowering plant Tabernaemontana divaricata (also known as crepe jasmine or pinwheel flower, pictured), the compound from the leaves and roots have been used for anti-inflammation and pain relief, respectively.

Now, a synthetic form of the rare natural product can alleviate fever and acute pain as well, according to researchers from the Scripps Research Institute.

Conolidine belongs to a larger class of natural products, called C5-nor stemmadenines, members of which have been described as opioid analgesics belonging to the same class of compounds as morphine and hydrocone.

But because conolidine is not an opioid, it might offer pain relief without complications like the development of dependence and nausea."

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The Astounding Skin Gun
- 3 Feb 2011
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- 03Feb11 Burns Healing Medicine Technology
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"National Geographic recently reported on a mind-blowing new innovation for the treatment of burn victims. The device, developed by Dr. Jörg C. Gerlach , utilizes the healthy parts of a patient's skin and that patient's stem cells to produce incredible results."

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Could "Brain-dead" Patients Actually Be Aware ?

Researchers use maggots to heal diabetic wounds

The Five Biggest Medical Discoveries In History

Russian Experiments : Revival of Organisms, and The Two-Headed Dog

“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.”

Natural pain relief with no opioids, no side effects?

The Astounding Skin Gun

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